The two men accused of breaking into the CCS store on Camp Street and stealing over $1.8M were on Monday granted $150,000 bail each by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan when they made a second court appearance.
Last Thursday Jerrick De Agrella, 24, of 12 Barima Avenue, Bel Air Park and Richard Herod called `Stay man’, 34, of 22 Hadfield Street appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged jointly with break and enter and larceny and damage to property. They were remanded to prison after they were told that they could not plead to the charges.
It is alleged that sometime between January 20 and 22, the duo broke and entered CCS and stole from Money Gram a metal safe containing $1,650,953 cash and a canister containing $77,000.
Additionally it is alleged that during the same period the defendants damaged a metal safe valued $140,000 belonging to CCS.
Reports are that on Saturday afternoon, employees of the stationery store, which is an agent for Money Gram Money Transfer, secured the premises and left. When they turned up for work on Monday morning they discovered the backdoor dislodged. Further checks in the store revealed that the safe, which contained money, was missing.
The bandits had reportedly deactivated the security alarm system in the store during the break-in. De Agrella is a mini-bus conductor and a trainee welder while Herod is employed as a welder.
They have to return to Court Two on February 26.
